The Other Podcast

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, Dianna Deeley, and I will be at our mics at 7 pm ET for the next episode of the The Other Podcast Live. Join us on Podbean.

Likely topics include Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™.

149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Back in 2012, Brett Kimberlin created a pirate-themed website called the Bloggers Offense Fund. That led to his being referred to as The Dread Pirate Kimberlin. Eleven years ago today, I posted Dread Pirates Compared–Roberts v. #BrettKimberlin.

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The Dread Pirate Roberts, so the story goes, is a pirate of near-mythical reputation, someone feared across the seven seas for his ruthlessness and swordfighting prowess, and who is well known for taking no prisoners. Ships immediately surrender and give up their cargos rather than be captured, a fate they imagine to be certain death.

The Dread Pirate Kimberlin is more like a legend in his own mind, a pretender who wishes to be feared for his ruthlessness and legal ability and to be known for vanquishing all comers in court. Critics, he thinks, should immediately stop telling the truth about him and give up their First Amendment rights at his command.

It turns out that Dread Pirate Kimberlin’s legal acumen seems to be as fictional as Dread Pirate Roberts’ existence. And no one will surrender to Dread Pirate Kimberlin.

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As the mockery continued, Pirate became interchangeable with Pro-Se, Performer, Protestor, Protector, Perjurer, etc., and when Kimberlin failed to pay court-ordered sanction, Dread morphed into Deadbeat.

BTW, The Deadbeat Pusher Kimberlin is still the Speedway Bomber.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Back in the early days of Brett Kimberlin’s lawfare campaign of brass knuckles reputation management, he attracted the attention of much larger media outfits than Hogewash!. This #BrettKimberlin Post of the Day ran eleven years ago today.

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I wonder what it’s like to have a reputation so bad that no further damage to it is possible.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, …

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The resurrected Gawker has taken no notice of Brett Kimberlin, but he’s still the Speedway Bomber.

The Other Podcast

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Likely topics include Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™.

149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Candidates and Liars and Bloggers

Larry Sinclair isn’t the first person to make a sensational claim about a political candidate. He’s also not the first person who has made such a claim and failed to offer supporting evidence. And he’s not the first such person to sue bloggers who commented on such flimsy allegations.

Sinclair made his claims against Barack Obama in 2008. He claimed that in 1999 when Obama was a member of the Illinois Legislature, Obama bought him cocaine after which he performed fellatio on Obama. He got his 15 minutes of fame on the Internet and in the tabloids, but was generally ignored by the mainstream media. He filed a suit against Obama alleging that is was a First Amendment violation for the media to “suppress” the story. That suit was quickly thrown out. He then sued three bloggers who had said that his story was a lie, acknowledging that his plan was to use that suit to subpoena Obama for a deposition under oath. That suit attracted coverage from Politico in June, 2008—

In response to his suit, a lawyer for the anonymous bloggers hired local attorneys and private investigators, and dug up details of Sinclair’s criminal record from Colorado, Florida, and South Carolina. The lawyer, Paul Levy of the nonprofit Public Citizen Litigation Group, provided his client’s filings in federal court, which are publicly available, to Politico.
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He was first arrested on a larceny charge in 1981 in Denver, according to his Colorado arrest record, as filed in federal court. In 1985, he was convicted of theft and of forging a check in Florida, and sentenced to a year in jail, according to Florida records filed in federal court.

After the Florida episode, according to the records, he returned to Colorado, where he faced check fraud and credit card charges in 1986. Then, in 1987, he was convicted in Colorado on more serious forgery charges, and sentenced to 16 years in jail.

In prison, according to state records filed in federal court, Sinclair was disciplined 97 times for infractions including assault, threats, drug possession, intimidation, and verbal abuse, most recently in 1996.

The suit was dismissed in February, 2009.

BTW, Paul Alan Levy also represented the blogger Ace of Spades in the Kimberlin v. National Bloggers Club, et al. RICO Madness LOLsuit.

Yep, Sinclair’s not the first person with a long criminal rap sheet to sue bloggers who questioned an extraordinary claim about a political candidate and drugs—and to lose badly in court.

One more thing … I have no knowledge of whether Sinclair’s claims about Obama are true or false. I will simply note that there are enough things wrong about the former president and his actions that there is no need to tell lies about him.

The Other Podcast

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, Dianna Deeley, and I will be at our mics at 7 pm ET for the next episode of the The Other Podcast Live. Join us on Podbean.

Likely topics include Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™.

149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

The TKPOTD for ten years ago today took a look at some of Team Kimberlin’s attempts to use parody websites for harassment.

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A couple of months ago, Team Kimberlin put up active websites on some domains they had registered. One was theothermccain dot net. Another was allergic2bull.com. And one was hogewash dot net. All three were attack sites, and the two dot net sites were presented as parodies of the genuine articles.

hogewashdotnet0808I was … proud isn’t the word … let’s just say that I found a certain satisfaction that a relatively small-time site like Hogewash! caused so much angst at Team Kimberlin. For a few days, a great deal of effort went into trying to make fun of me. Then the dueling DMCA claims hit, compounded by Team Kimberlin’s use of obscene images. (I note that all of the offending images used by Team Kimberlin are still down, although some required multiple hits. None of the claims asserted by Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt have stood up.) There was a bit of activity early this month, but apparently the effort required to make fun of me on the Internet is too much given some of the real world challenges facing Team Kimberlin. No one has updated hogewash dot net since 8 August.

The Internet is littered with dormant sites related to Team Kimberlin. Some make sense because they have Donate buttons. If a site brings in more that it costs to keep it up, it’s a cash cow. Others may be liabilities.

We will see.

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Dozens of Kimberlin-related sites have popped and failed over the past decade, and Hogewash! is still muddling along.

The Other Podcast

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Various members of Team Kimberlin threatened me with the direst of dire direness for my writing about them. However, as of seven years ago today, I was Still Waiting for something to happen.

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No one from the Federal Blogging Inspectors has been in contact with me yet.

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To date, I’ve never been contacted by the FBI for any matter relating to Team Kimberlin, but I have been contacted by multiple other federal and state agencies seeking information about members of Kimberlin’s crew and their enablers.

The statute of limitation has not run out on some of those matters.

The Other Podcast

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Likely topics include Karma, California, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™.

 

149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Eleven years ago today, I posted about #BrettKimberlin and Self Awareness.

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Working link here. “γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Know thyself),” said the Greek philosophers. That’s good advice.

Meanwhile, the bloggers you made the mistake of trying to muzzle will make sure as many people as possible know you.

Justice through blogging.

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Never pick a fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.

—W. J. J. Hoge

The Other Podcast

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, Dianna Deeley, and I will be at our mics at 7 pm ET for the next episode of the The Other Podcast Live. Join us on Podbean.

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

Back in 2013, Brett Kimberlin threatened the venue where a group of bloggers were having a party during CPAC. He claimed that there would be a demonstration led by a “fiery imam” to protest Aaron Walker, Lee Stranahan, Stacy McCain, and me being welcome at the party called Blogbash.

The demonstration fizzled.

The TKPOTD for ten years ago today dealt with the work to prove that Kimberlin had been present stalking us at Blogbash.

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After a lot of old-fashioned detective work using techniques including some modern signal processing methods, a member of the Vast Hogewash Research Organization has found images of Brett Kimberlin among the stills and videos taken at and around BlogBash in March of this year. There sure are a lot of surveillance cameras in that neighborhood.

Given the threats he is supposed to have made to the venue and other possible threats from a member of Team Kimberlin to individual bloggers who attend BlogBash, the photographs showing he was present at the event will probably be of interest to law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.

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We’ve never had to use any of the surveillance images because pictures of Blogbash published at breitbartunmasked dot com were traced to particular phone, and the person who took them admitted to doing so.

Here’s Brett Kimberlin’s impression of a fiery imam and a shot of him standing across the street from Blogbash. Oh, and the white Toyota plays a role in another Kimberlin story, but we’ll save it for another day.

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

The Quote of the Day from eight years ago today explains the fundamental error of Brett Kimberlin’s attempt to use lawfare against bloggers—especially me.

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Never pick a fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.

—W. J. J. Hoge

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I’m not done with him yet.

The Other Podcast

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149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

The Other Podcast

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Likely topics include Ethics, Beer, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™ The Other Podcast

Stacy McCain, John Hoge, and Dianna Deeley discuss the week's news.
  1. 149: Autumn, AWFLs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  2. 148: Fact Chekists, AWFLs, and Crazy Cities Are Dangerous™
  3. Rights, Wrongs, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  4. 146: Pumpkins, Ethics, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™
  5. 145: Ancestors, Texas, and Crazy People Are Dangerous™

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

One of the recurring bits of mockery aimed a Team Kimberlin has been posts about how abysmally small their web presence really is. The TKPOTD for eight years ago today opened with the implication that Bill Schmalfeldt’s web traffic was so small that he believed his only readers were stalking him.

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Apparently, the Cabin Boy™ now thinks that anyone who reads his blog is stalking him.grouchcast365}201507102347ZLet me zoom in on the IP address of the Cabin Boy’s™ alleged stalker.WrongIPOooo! That’s a dynamic IP associated with QIS.net, one my ISPs (I have connections via three different ISPs). BTW, it’s a dynamic IP that gets reassigned from user to user, but I’ll bet Schmalfeldt believes he has airtight proof that I was stalking him looking at his blog.

FWIW, here’s my IP address via the connection I was using on Friday night.IPAddressFor the record, I do look at the Cabin Boy’s™ blog from time to time, usually via TOR, so the IP left behind is rarely one associated with any of my ISPs.

Oh, and given that Schmalfeldt makes comments about the contents of Hogewash! and even cuts and pastes from this blog, it seems that under his own definition he is stalking me.

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It appears that Schmalfeldt’s web presence is continuing to shrink. As of 9:30 pm ET last night, the website for the newspaper carrying his writing has a world sites rating of #19,987,320. His abandoned breitbitnews.com ranks at #2,618,813.

Heh.